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Electrophoresis is described in the chapter here,
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I'll just describe it briefly.
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If you have DNA fragments,
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so this is DNA that you've cut up into fragments
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using restriction enzymes for example.
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You load them into the top of a gel and a gel is -
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in this case it's synthetic polymer gel but it looks very much like Jell-O.
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I'm sure some of you have dealt with electrophoresis gels in the past and
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it's really just a slab of something like Jell-O
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where you can put a sample at one end of the Jell-O,
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your sample of fragmented DNA.
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Now you apply electrical charge across that Jell-O.